Aloy Ejimakor, special counsel to Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has warned President Bola Tinubu to stop referring to IPOB as a terrorist organisation.
Mr Ejimakor, in a statement on Friday, also warned Nigerians, including the country’s security forces and media organisations to desist from tagging IPOB as a terrorist group.
The lawyer said Mr Kanu’s legal team has the firm instruction of the IPOB leader to issue “the final warning” to all persons and institutions in Nigeria.
Statement reads;
Henceforth, any further reference to IPOB as a terrorist organization will be met and countervailed with a muscular litigation and other lawful measures, regardless of who the entity is. This is because there is a subsisting Judgment of a competent High Court in Nigeria (attached herewith) which ruled that IPOB’s proscription/declaration as a terrorist group by Buhari is illegal, discriminatory and unconstitutional. Compliance with this Judgment strictly demands that IPOB should no longer be referred to as a terrorist organization.
Additionally, those calling IPOB a terrorist organization have not adduced a scintilla of evidence that IPOB has ever engaged in any terrorist activity. This is underscored by the verifiable fact that since the so-called proscription of IPOB in 2017, no single alleged IPOB member has been convicted of any terrorist act, despite thousands of arrests, abductions, horrendous torture, false flags and extrajudicial killings levied against its alleged members.
Accordingly, we hereby demand that the general public, Presidency, Nigerian Army, Nigerian Police and any erring media houses should forthwith cease and desist from attaching such defamatory and prejudicial label to IPOB led by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.
Signed: Aloy Ejimakor, Esq.
For Mazi Nnamdi Legal Team.
